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African American

M0rpheus

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8. They don't teach African-American history at all.

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #7)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:30 PM

Feb 2014

They teach "History", which includes some brown/black people in it, as extras.

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Wait… Wut?!? [View all] MrScorpio Feb 2014 OP

LOL!!! M0rpheus Feb 2014 #1

True that! JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #3

Schools don't teach enough yeoman6987 Feb 2014 #7

They don't teach African-American history at all. M0rpheus Feb 2014 #8

You are right yeoman6987 Feb 2014 #9

That's the part of the History book that I call "Notable Negros". M0rpheus Feb 2014 #11

Morpheus ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #16

I'll admit that is a callback to a few conversations we used to have in high school. M0rpheus Feb 2014 #20

You guys are cracking me up Number23 Feb 2014 #23

M0, don't you know that black history begins and ends with SLAVERY??! Number23 Feb 2014 #22

Most of the books haven't changed one bit. M0rpheus Feb 2014 #24

No, actually they don't mzteris Feb 2014 #26

I think that's what I said. :) M0rpheus Feb 2014 #27

Sorry. mzteris Feb 2014 #29

No sorry necessary! We're all friends over here! M0rpheus Feb 2014 #30

They were afraid JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #2

Hoo boy! M0rpheus Feb 2014 #4

Private threads but JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #5

Confused and amused. :) M0rpheus Feb 2014 #6

You know what JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #10

Ah... That thread. M0rpheus Feb 2014 #12

I ran into a poster who said she'd tune into Smiley and West for the truth today. freshwest Feb 2014 #31

Well you know fresh JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #33

Now I just gotta know Half-Century Man Feb 2014 #13

Here you go! M0rpheus Feb 2014 #14

They were easy questions! JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #15

I looked at the questions ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #17

Thanks Half-Century Man Feb 2014 #19

I wonder if anyone ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #18

My money's on Whitney!! Number23 Feb 2014 #21

Last Night on Jeopardy No One Wanted to Answer Qs About Black History M0rpheus Feb 2014 #25

there was a post on this in GD JI7 Feb 2014 #28

Guess the frat kids didn't take Black History class. I elected to take two semesters. freshwest Feb 2014 #32

not surprised in the least heaven05 Feb 2014 #34

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